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... probably not very original. 148 Beyond Velikovsky principle of circularity and rejected Kepler's notion of elliptical orbits, which we now accept. Francis Bacon, one of the respected founders of modern science, was scathing about the heliocentric idea. C. P. Smyth, an acknowledged pioneer in spectroscopic studies, was a crank in the matter of the Pyramids. The names of those who are now respected as great innovators, but who were labeled by their contemporaries as cranks, charlatans, or wicked, are legion [113, 125]: Horace Wells (anesthesia with nitrous oxide), Semmelweiss (sterilized environment for the delivery of babies), Pasteur, Roentgen, Lister, and ...
502. Misusing Radiocarbon: A Case Study [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . But old wood is suspected by Hassan and Robinson when wood dates on the funerary boat of Sesostris III that otherwise meet their criteria are earlier than the supposedly secure astronomically derived date for this ruler. But why is not the use of old wood' also suspected for Zoser? Are we to seriously believe that his or any other Egyptian pyramid or tomb was built with saplings or sapwood rather than the heartwood of large, old trees? As I have suggested in my paper in Discussions In Egyptology, the published Egyptian radiocarbon data includes numerous examples of wood from coffins or tombs that is older, often by 500 to 1200 years, than other associated woods or short-lived materials, ...
503. Chapter20_21
... : the enigmatical Egyptian hpt, the so-called "ship's device" (Schiffsgerat) of obscure literal meaning, which the Pharaoh brought running to a deity in the ritual of the "oar-race." There was also a "jar-race" and a "bird-race," the Pharaoh carrying a water jar or a bird, respectively. In several Pyramid Texts the soul of the dead ruler takes this ship's device and brings it to another celestial department, while the actual rowing of the boat is done by the stars (Pyr. 2173A, D; see also 284A, 873D, 1346B). See Aeg. Wh., vol. 3, pp. 67-71; A. ...
... of the short periodic type, approaches the Sun not only along an extended ellipse, but the Sun forms the apex and not the axis of this ellipse. Should the approach of a comet be in the form of a parabola, it is even more pronouncedly the apex, the head stone, it might almost be said, of a pyramid. The case of the comet of 1882, which swung round 180 degrees of its ellipse within three hours, demonstrates quite plainly that such an orbit is one which cannot be pursued with any consistency, as it utterly defies the laws of gravity. Any elongated ellipse with the Sun at or near the apex is an impossible hypothesis to ...
505. The Mixtec Tree of Origin [Journals] [Aeon]
... Underworld, its branches in the heavens, linked the three layers. Both gods and the souls of the dead used the trunk of this tree to pass from one layer to another. Wacah Chan's trunk was personified by the body of the king, who brought the World Tree to rest as he stood in a shamanistic trance atop a temple pyramid. He communicated with Xibalba, the spiritual world, or Otherworld, not only in trance but by shedding his blood in ritual lettings from his tongue or penis onto sacred papers which were then burnt." [15] And: "On the lid [of his sarcophagus, Pacal's] artists depicted the Sun Lord falling down the ...
... millstone," that is, appointed to play Pole star (see above, p. 92). The simple answer lies in the facts of the case. The Pole star does get out of place, and every few thousand years another star has to be chosen which best approximates that position. It is well known that the Great Pyramid, so carefully sighted, is not oriented at our Pole Star but at alpha Draconis, which occupied the position at the pole 5,000 years ago. But, as has been mentioned above (Intermezzo, p. 66), it is the more difficult for moderns to imagine that in those far-off ages men could keep track ...
... doubt, be referred to by some as ornamental. After all, the Christian cross is a very "simple" design. Yet it means much to Christians. When we undertake the investigation of the various customs and the associated beliefs of "early man", we find that, as Professor Breasted so finely says in connexion with the Pyramid Texts of ancient Egypt, "they vaguely disclose to us a vanished world of thought and speech". It is difficult to believe that early man, whose burial customs were expressions of his beliefs regarding human destiny, and whose other customs were similarly invested with meaning, produced art objects and designs which were entirely meaningless to him, ...
... 318-319; derivation of name, 379-383 Proto-Pythagoreans,6 Psalms, Book of, quoted, 86 Ptah 12_ 135, 222, 285, 29, 38, 427 Ptolemy, vi, 50, 143, 257, 388; Geography of, 63-64; on fixed stars, 307 Pukku, 441, 443 Puranas, 78, 259-260 Pyramid Texts, 120, 132, 414, 443 Pyriphlegethon, river, 184, 195, 198 Pythagoras, v, 121, 174, 187, 279; and mathematics, 6; and music, 369 Pythagoreans, 65, 202-203, 242, 334; on legend of Phaethon, 252-253, 256; tradition of, 310; ...
509. The Israelite Origins of Monotheism and the Prohibition of Killing [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... our solar system. Now, if the feared blows of fate were attributable to these bodies, knowledge that the planets had now achieved such settled and predictable orbits as to allow calendrical calculations would make further such blows seem unlikely, and provide a strong objection to sacrifices aimed at forestalling them.6 The fact that ziggurats, towers, step pyramids, and simple mountains and hills (on some of which human sacrifices were carried out) served for astronomical observation offers strong indication for terrestrial catastrophes of cosmic origin. Thus the gods to be appeased by sacrifice can be identified as the planets involved in these catastrophes, or deifications of other celestial bodies. For a period later than that ...
... doubt, be referred to by some as ornamental. After all, the Christian cross is a very "simple" design. Yet it means much to Christians. When we undertake the investigation of the various customs and the associated beliefs of "early man", we find that, as Professor Breasted so finely says in connexion with the Pyramid Texts of ancient Egypt, "they vaguely disclose to us a vanished world of thought and speech". It is difficult to believe that early man, whose burial customs were expressions of his beliefs regarding human destiny, and whose other customs were similarly invested with meaning, produced art objects and designs which were entirely meaningless to him, ...
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